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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






2. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






3. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






4. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






5. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






6. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






7. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






8. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






9. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






10. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






11. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






12. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






13. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






14. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






15. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






16. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






17. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






19. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






20. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






21. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






22. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






23. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






24. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






25. State Board of Eduation






26. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






27. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






28. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






29. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






30. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






31. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






33. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






34. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






35. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






36. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






37. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






39. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






40. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






41. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






42. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






43. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






44. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






45. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






46. Open syllable






47. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






48. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






49. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






50. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.